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May 22, 2022
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Becoming a Member of HPAC is a great way to support the arts and get a little something in ...
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We shared images of isolation, safety, worry, longing, and hope.
December 21, 2020
“It was May, three months into the pandemic: we were in lockdown, staying home nearly all the time. From different spots in Sullivan County, we shared images of isolation, safety, worry, longing, and hope.”
This week, we can finally begin to imagine...
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We All Need A…
December 21, 2020
Local Monticello artist Rohan Patrick’s brilliant series of prints, In Need of A…, now graces the Main Street facade of the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre. Depicting heartfelt hugs in bold blocks of color, the images are a love note to our commun...
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Your Support Keeps The Arts Thriving
December 21, 2020
Introducing Our Year-End Fundraising Drive
When this year started, we had no idea what we were in for. This pandemic has upended so many families and businesses. It has also been, by far, the most destabilizing year for the arts in America in recent...
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Poster Contest Winner!
August 10, 2020
The Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre is happy to announce the winner of our inaugural Main Street Poster Contest:
Rohan Patrick
In Need of A...
In this time what some of us needs most is a hug. A hug is a form of endearment, universal in human...
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Masks, but make it FASHION
May 23, 2020
I consider myself a Thrift Queen. My family and I were always considered lower middle class. My father bounced around a bit from one retail store to the next, until he found his niche, which he learned later on, was not retail. My mother was a wai...
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Erin & The Life and Times of Molly Ivans
May 14, 2020
The sun is shining and it is snowing heavily. Nothing to see here folks, just another snowy spring day in May during Covid 19. With typical escape mechanisms no longer working I am hoping to avoid the usual mental loops of politics, environmental doo...
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Will Covid Help or Hurt the Environmental Movement?
May 07, 2020
Will our experience in this pandemic help or hurt the environmental movement? This is a question I keep returning to in recent weeks. In light of that, I’ve reached out to Ellie Irons of the Environmental Performance Agency to join us on Thursday, Ma...
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Theatre at its Roots with the Farm Arts Collective
April 28, 2020
I was 12 when I first went to see a proper theatrical performance. I packed into a Dodge passenger van with my 6th grade class of about 16 people with my dad as a chaperone. We drove down into New York City to see the quintessential Broadway show, “T...
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Comfort Food
April 17, 2020
Food is the ultimate and most fundamental of social activities which is why during this time of social distancing, people are turning to food, especially baking, to find some of that missing comfort. So while you wait for that bread to rise, the sauc...
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